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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
Recent News
August 13, 2015
Peter Gerhart, professor of law and former dean of the School of Law, was selected as the interim president of Lake Erie College. He began his yearlong term Aug. 1, but still will teach a seminar this fall. He will return to Case Western Reserve next June.
Gerhart served as law school dean from 198...
August 07, 2015
Dalindyebo Shabalala, visiting assistant professor of law, filled the role of rapporteur for New Research for Effective Action at Paris and Beyond, a two-day event that was held during the Global Climate Policy Conference in New Delhi.
The conference, which was held April 30-May 1, aimed to address...
August 06, 2015
Case Western Reserve University’s supporters set 22 all-time records for fundraising in fiscal year 2015, including its eighth all-time record for attainment in the past nine years. That total of $166.9 million bested 2014’s record by $15.3 million—a figure nearly three times as high as the previous...
July 24, 2015
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently presented on ethical issues in the medical field.
At the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics’ Health Law Professors Conference in St. Louis on June 6, Hoffman pr...
July 24, 2015
Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published and presented on the intersection of law and medicine.
He contributed a chapter titled “Captain American and Iron Man: B...
July 17, 2015
Robert N. Strassfeld, professor of law, and Calvin Sharpe, the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation, contributed to the fourth edition of Understanding Labor Law.
Strassfeld and Sharpe wrote the book with Douglas E. Ray, dean and professor of law at St. Thomas University School o...
July 17, 2015
Earlier this month, Avidan Y. Cover, assistant professor of law and director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, participated in the “Happy Dog Takes on the World” discussion on the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Cover and Joshua Stacher, associate professor of political science at Kent State ...
July 12, 2015
First-for-Ohio program seen as attractive career option for those with engineering or science academic background
Case Western Reserve University School of Law is launching a one-year master's in patent practice degree program this fall semester.
A first of its kind in Ohio, the program is designed...
June 24, 2015
The challenges can be immense when a busy middle-aged person must adapt to managing the care of an elderly family member or close friend, especially if one or more chronic illnesses are involved.
A new book by Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Sharona Hoffman details how peopl...
June 18, 2015
Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor of Law, published, “Sometimes Unguided (or Maybe Misguided) Economic Substance Guidance,” in the Journal of Taxation of Investments, Winter 2015.
Jensen also made several presentations within the last six months, including:
Speaking on “‘Student’ Athle...